Eternal Hide and Seek
K P RASTOGI
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I've nursed a deep desire since childhood to see truth, face-toface. I knew that truth would remain elusive unless I learnt to recognise the true nature of my own self and the world around me. But bookish knowledge did not take me any closer to this goal. Knowledge derived with the help of the senses is not entirely dependable, for our senses can deceive us.Dejected, I turned towards `Gyan Marg', I read a lot. The result? I became an atheist. There is no God, there is no power that controls the universe, I told myself. Evolution is at the root of all that has evolved and that is evolving at present. All the mysteries of the universe are the result of evolution, including even consciousness and self-consciousness. God is not the creator of man; man is the creator of God.
Perhaps a purified, controlled mind can do what an unpurified mind cannot do. But had it been so, Buddha would not have kept silent when he was asked three times by a renowned saint, “Do you believe in God?“ Newton, too, knew that his knowledge was shallow, “I am picking up pebbles on the sea shore,“ he remarked.
Where the mind fails, can the heart succeed? `Prem Marg' could well help us achieve what `Gyan Marg' has failed to do. I followed this path for a while but remained unsatisfied. Sometimes, I ask myself, “Suppose I had more than five senses, say , 20 or 30 -how would the universe appear to me?“ What will happen to my idea of reality, to present-day science and mathematics, and to the arrogance of man?
Perhaps a purified, controlled mind can do what an unpurified mind cannot do. But had it been so, Buddha would not have kept silent when he was asked three times by a renowned saint, “Do you believe in God?“ Newton, too, knew that his knowledge was shallow, “I am picking up pebbles on the sea shore,“ he remarked.
Where the mind fails, can the heart succeed? `Prem Marg' could well help us achieve what `Gyan Marg' has failed to do. I followed this path for a while but remained unsatisfied. Sometimes, I ask myself, “Suppose I had more than five senses, say , 20 or 30 -how would the universe appear to me?“ What will happen to my idea of reality, to present-day science and mathematics, and to the arrogance of man?
